Dating caveats 101

1. Be aware of pick-up lines, especially if you have been living with two 80-year olds for 2 years and can no longer understand how people with a libido talk.

2. Be aware of pick-up lines that are more corny than either the whole state of Iowa or Nancy Kerrigan's Disney parade.

3. Be a little bolstered that someone would want to use such corny pick-up lines on you.

4. Nashville hotel mini-bars paid for by a software development company in Atlanta often contain many delicious and inhibition-busting agents.

5. Just because his father is a Lutheran minister, stop singing Dusty Springfield, at least quite so much.

6. Don't give your cell number to someone who will give you a booty call from 400 miles away.

7. Be just a little happy and/or smug that you got a booty call, though.

8. Don't give your cell number to someone who will later in the week give you a drunken call filled with racist rants that make you feel really fucking stupid and ashamed.

9. Make sure that said person's private ringtone is not set to Milkshake by Kelis so that people around you don't get a good giggle regardless.

10. Don't harp on it; move along; let something better happen. *sigh*